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THOMAS TREDGOLD (1788-1829)

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Originally appearing in Volume V27, Page 234 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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THOMAS TREDGOLD (1788-1829)  ,
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English engineer, was born at
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Brandon, near Durham, on the 22nd of August 1788, and at the age of fourteen was apprenticed to a carpenter . In 1808 he went to Scotland, and after working there as a journeyman for five years, obtained employment, in
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London with an architect . He began to practice as a
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civil engineer on his own account in 1823, but much of his time was devoted to the preparation of his
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engineering text-books, which gained a wide reputation . They included Elementary Principles of
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Carpentry (182o), almost the first
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book of its kind in English;
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Practical
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Treatise on the Strength of Cast Iron and other Metals (1824); Principles of Warming and Ventilating Public Buildings (1824); Practical Treatise on Railroads and Carriages (1825); and The Steam Engine (1827) . He died in London on the 28th of
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January 1829 .

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